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Developing neurons routinely experience double-strand DNA breaks while migrating through dense brain tissue, a process that is effectively managed by a rapid, specialized cellular repair system. This mechanism ensures that structural DNA damage occurs without compromising neuronal function or viability during the formation of the brain cortex.
#Neurobiology #MolecularBiology #Genetics #DevelopmentalBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/06/ns06192601.html

Neuronal DNA Repair During Brain Cortex Formation

Scientists discovered that migrating neurons routinely repair mechanical DNA breaks during brain development, offering new insights into neurobiology.

Wendy 2d ago

Five hundred million years ago, something that was not yet an animal became one. This week, in a lab in Jena, somebody got close to watching it happen.

They found the master switch — the cells that tell a body what to build — inside a comb jelly, one of the oldest branches on the animal tree. Then they moved those cells into a sea anemone from a wholly different phylum, and the anemone grew a whole second working mouth.

The body remembers things older than every empire that ever called us unnatural.
https://twp.ai/4hrYv3

#MarineBiology #Science #Evolution #CombJelly #Ctenophore #OceanLife #DevelopmentalBiology #Wonder #STEM #Nature #Photography #SciComm

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wendythedruid 2d ago

Five hundred million years ago, something that wasn't yet an animal became one. Nobody saw it. This week, in a lab in Jena, somebody got as close to watching it as we may ever get. 🧵 https://twp.ai/4hrZsx

#Science #Evolution #MarineBiology #CombJelly #Ctenophore #DevelopmentalBiology #OceanLife #STEM #SciComm #Wonder #Nature #Biology

What Survives the Morning: The Burning Doesn't Ask Permission, and Neither Does the Green Coming Up Through It

A lyrical guide to HR survival from someone in the trenches—practical wisdom, real-world advice, and the quiet resilience that grows through workplace fire.

Wendy The Druid

Scientific Frontline 3d ago

G protein-coupled receptor 3 (GPR3) has been identified as an "immediate-early gene-like" receptor that triggers cell differentiation into neurons much earlier in the developmental process than previously understood.
#MolecularNeuroscience #PharmacologicalNeuroscience #DevelopmentalBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/06/ns06172601.html

GPR3: A Key Receptor in Early Neuronal Development

Hiroshima University researchers discover that GPR3 acts as an immediate-early gene to trigger rapid neuronal differentiation and synapse formation.

Scientific Frontline 4d ago

The Enteric Nervous System is a highly sophisticated, autonomous network of approximately 500 million neurons and supportive glial cells embedded within the human gastrointestinal tract. Often referred to as the body's "second brain".
#Neurogastroenterology #Neuroscience #Gastroenterology #Immunology #DevelopmentalBiology #Microbiology #WhatIs #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/06/wi06162601.html

What Is: Enteric Nervous System: The Second Brain

Discover the Enteric Nervous System (ENS), the gut's independent second brain that controls digestion, immunity, and even mental health.

Kropotkinson (we are all 🇵🇸)Jun 12

Trying to get my hands on "Wolpert's Principles of Development" (a.k.a. "Principles of Development 7th edition")

LibGen doesn't have it. The 6th edition is from 2019, and the 7th is from 2025, and I suspect a lot may have happened in 6 years (also, the 7th edition is like ~30% bigger than 6th edition which I already got)

Any suggestions?

#DevelopmentalBiology #Biology

jobRxiv Jun 5

Graduate position:Simulating evolution under complex genotype-phenotype map
Genetics and Microbiology Deparment

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/genetics-and-microbiology-deparment-27778-graduate-positionsimulating-evolution-under-complex-genotype-phenotype-map/

#developmentalbiology #EvolutionaryBiology ...
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Graduate position:Simulating evolution under complex genotype-phenotype map

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Scientific Frontline Jun 4

Prenatal exposure to the Zika virus can cause subtle, long-term neurodevelopmental and sensory processing disorders in infants who are born without visible physical defects.
#Virology #Neurobiology #DevelopmentalBiology #Pediatrics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/06/vi06042601.html

Zika Virus: Hidden Infant Development Risks

Prenatal Zika exposure causes hidden neurodevelopmental deficits in infants without physical symptoms, requiring long-term pediatric screening.

jobRxiv Jun 4

Postdoctoral position in the Perry Lab, UC San Diego
University of California, San Diego

Join the Perry Lab as a #neural #evolution Postdoc.

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-california-san-diego-27778-postdoctoral-position-in-the-perry-lab-uc-san-diego/

#animalbehavior #developmentalbiology #EvolutionaryBiology #g...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-california-san-diego-27778-postdoctoral-position-in-the-perry-lab-uc-san-diego/?fsp_sid=12680

Postdoctoral position in the Perry Lab, UC San Diego

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Scientific Frontline Jun 3

A newly defined modular framework organizing over 8,000 individual neurons in the Drosophila cerebrum into fewer than 200 fundamental structural groups, simplifying the link between molecular programming and behavior.
#Neurobiology #MolecularBiology #CellBiology #Genetics #DevelopmentalBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/06/ns06032601.html

Neuron Ground Plans: Simplifying Brain Research

Discover how organizing neurons into 200 structural ground plans simplifies complex neurobiology research, linking specific genes to behaviors.